Grew Up Quotes - Page 36

• I grew up backstage and on movie sets, and I thought they were the most magical places on Earth.

  Zosia Mamet

  Earth, Magical Places, Movie Sets

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My father was a jazz tenor sax player. He played in a lot of big bands. So I had that sound around me all the time. The first record that really caught my ear was Clifford Brown's 'Brownie Eyes.' I grew up listening to John Coltrane and Illinois Jacquet. This is where I come from... I love improvisational music.

  Meshell Ndegeocello

  Father, Eye, Player

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• I also grew up building theatrical scenery. I spent many years building scenery as a large part of my income and that allowed me to really develop my shop skills.

  Nick Offerman

  Years, Skills, Income

  "Nick Offerman Of ‘Parks And Recreation’ On Ron Swanson, The Cubs And, Duh, Facial Hair". Interview with Joseph Erbentraut, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 12, 2012.

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• I grew up in San Antonio, Texas, and went to a big high school called Douglas McArthur where there was a lot of track and a lot of football. It was a bit like 'Friday Night Lights.' I used to spend a lot of time at the track.

  Norah O'Donnell

  Friday, Football, School

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• I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.

  Tea Obreht

  Egypt, Cyprus, Remember

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• Too much emphasis is put on American roots music when people try and place me. You know, I grew up listening to punk.

  Will Oldham

  Roots, People, Listening

  "Still voice, distant life" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. November 16, 2002.

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• I grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. I lived in Grand Blanc, Michigan for a year and that's when I got involved in acting and took classes there. A manager who saw me at the agency I was at in Michigan wanted me to come out to L.A.

  Evan Peters

  Agency, Years, Class

  "Tribeca Exclusive Interview: Evan Peters Talks ‘American Horror Story’ And ‘Adult World’". Interview with Niki Cruz, www.inquisitr.com. April 21, 2013.

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• I grew up in the 1950s at the beginning of rock n' roll, and would strum a tennis racket in front of the mirror.

  Jonathan Pryce

  Mirrors, Rocks, Tennis

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I grew up as a really sick kid; I had really bad childhood asthma and was at home all the time in New York.

  Josh Peck

  New York, Home, Kids

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• I grew up reading the newspapers, mostly the sports section. I was a wrestler and would check to see if I was ranked.

  Michael Pena

  Sports, Reading, Checks

  "Michael Pena's adjusting to the view from up there". Interview with Luiz Gomez, articles.chicagotribune.com. September 21, 2012.

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• I grew up doing martial arts, and it's one of these things where I always kind of liked acting, but I was never real serious about it.

  Jody Hill

  Art, Real, Acting

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. April 10, 2009.

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• My parents were missionaries - I was born in the States but I grew up in Brazil.

  Arto Lindsay

  Parent, Brazil, States

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• I won the parental lottery. Most of the kids I grew up with either came from really fractured homes, or really violent ones. I went home to a very traditional, good Irish Catholic family.

  Dennis Lehane

  Home, Kids, Catholic

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• Mom ran the house, so we grew up Portuguese.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Mom, House, Portuguese

  "Interview with Chef Emeril Lagasse of Emeril's - New Orleans, Louisiana". Interview with P. Greaney, www.starchefs.com. October 2011.

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• I grew up with the Beatles and they are still to this day my top band played in my iTunes.

  Greg Laswell

  Band, Stills, Itunes

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• I grew up in Marin County north of San Francisco, and in the 1950s and '60s it was a natural paradise.

  Huey Lewis

  San Francisco, Paradise, Natural

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• I had always loved music. I grew up listening to classic country, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard. My dad loved Vern Gosdin and Keith Whitley. So I kept going to class and started getting totally into playing guitar and teaching myself these songs.

  Jake Owen

  Country, Song, Dad

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• I grew up in Middle America and I don't think my family was very funny, but I watched 'The Princess Bride.' I always wanted to be an actor. I didn't know anything about it. I'd never seen any plays or anything and I watched that movie over and over and over again.

  Missi Pyle

  Princess, Thinking, Play

  "John Goodman and Missi Pyle Talk the Artist, Robert Zemeckis’ Flight, Pixar’s Monsters University, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, More". Roundtable Interview, collider.com. November 16, 2011.

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• I grew up in a socialist country. And I have seen what that does to people. There is no hope, no freedom. No pride in achievement.

  Thomas Peterffy

  Country, Pride, Socialist Countries

  "If You Had Actually Grown Up In A Soviet Country, This Is What You Would Have Experienced" by Rob Wile, www.businessinsider.com. October 22, 2012.

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• Since I was a baby my goal was to be on TV because film was just impossible - you never got any Asian women in Western cinema. I grew up wanting to be in 'East-Enders' because film wasn't even a dream. The community were very much like, 'How can you want to act? It's such a low-class profession.

  Archie Panjabi

  Dream, Baby, Class

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• I grew up in Plano, Texas.

  Hunter Parrish

  Texas, Grew

  Interview with Emily Poenisch, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 30, 2008.

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• My mom grew up in Kansas, my dad in Indiana. They had boring childhoods.

  Hunter Parrish

  Mom, Dad, Kansas

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I grew up on the stage, where you just throw yourself into projects and don't get in your own way.

  Jeremy Piven

  Way, Stage, Grew

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• I never made more than $50 doing any play in Chicago. That was the way I grew up.

  Jeremy Piven

  Play, Way, Chicago

  Interview with Sam Adams, film.avclub.com. December 16, 2011.

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• I grew up half the time in a small town called Mart, Texas, and half the time in L.A., because I was acting. My high school was crazy about football.

  Jesse Plemons

  Football, Crazy, School

  "Friday Night Lights: Jesse Plemons Has Home-Field Advantage". Interview with Marnie Hanel, www.vanityfair.com. April 2009.

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